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Intrinsic on 24 October 2016
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Rafie said:
Intrinsic said:
NO.

I dont know why some publications insist on spreading this misinformation.

The bluray drive in the PS4/Pro can read a double layered disc which maxes out at 50GB. if a UHD movie can fit in that then yes there is no reason why the PS4pro can't play it. But UHD movies require 3-4 layer discs to hold all their data. And there is no software update that Sony can do that can make them make the drive read layers that it can not read.

Do you know this for sure? I'm sure Sony may have forseen this and acted accordingly when making the Pro. Then again, I don't know that for sure so I won't make baseless claims. Not saying your claim is baseless btw.

yes. There are two main things to UHD Blu-ray. the codec used and then capacity of the disc. 

things like the codec  can be patched in via firmware but doing so isn't enough for sony to claim their consoles can play UHD movies. That's thanks to the capacity.

As it stands a typical BR movie can be as big as 18-35GB. That's all well and good for the two layer (50GB) discs the drives in the PS4/PS4pro has. the average UHD movie goes up to 45-80GB. so if sony patched in support for them there will be a good number of discs that won't just work (basically any disc that uses more than 2 layers). 

So this isn't something that Sony can just add in via a software update. There is also the matter of the drive speed. UHD BR require a higher nitrate than what the 6x drive in the PS4's can do. You need at least 8x..... (not too sure of this last part tho)